Second Announcement

7th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering

Boston, Massachusetts, July 21-25, 2002

The
Seventh US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (7NCEE): Urban Risk
is coming up on July 21-25, 2002, in Boston, MA. Among the plenary sessions on
the agenda is a session on the earthquake engineer's perspectives on the World
Trade Center (WTC) disaster. Chaired by Leslie Robertson, engineer of record
for the WTC, the session will consider what earthquake engineers can contribute
to the understanding of structural vulnerability and damage.

Another session will discuss whether the earthquake engineering community
should address other natural hazards and security instead of focusing only on
earthquake hazard. Research needs and opportunities for earthquake engineering
will be the topic of a session presented by the committee that was recently
established to develop EERI's long-term research plan.

Research vision and implementation at the national research centers will be
the focus of another plenary session, in which attendees will hear from the
directors of the three earthquake engineering centers: Dan Abrams of the Middle
America (MAE) Center; George Lee, Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake
Engineering Research (MCEER); and Jack Moehle of the Pacific Earthquake
Engineering Research Center (PEER).